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[edit] Fundamental principles of ecology
... relationship with every other element that makes up its environment. The sum total of interacting living organisms (the biocoenosis) and their non-living environment (the biotope) in an area is termed an ecosystem. Studies of ecosystems usually focus on the movement of energy and matter through the ...
... relationship with every other element that makes up its environment. The sum total of interacting living organisms (the biocoenosis) and their non-living environment (the biotope) in an area is termed an ecosystem. Studies of ecosystems usually focus on the movement of energy and matter through the ...
2010/045 - Vagues/Waves
... riffle/run areas, where the water flow is steady. In riverine systems, they are generally found on substrate composed of sand or gravel, up to approximately 1 m deep. The last lacustrine population located in the St. Clair River delta can be found in shallow sand flats, and along shallow wave-washed ...
... riffle/run areas, where the water flow is steady. In riverine systems, they are generally found on substrate composed of sand or gravel, up to approximately 1 m deep. The last lacustrine population located in the St. Clair River delta can be found in shallow sand flats, and along shallow wave-washed ...
Knowing Your Warblers
... maintenance of local diversity. In a one-paragraph Introduction, MacArthur succinctly lays out the problem: five species of Dendroica coexist in mature boreal forest, so similar in form and food that leading ornithologists note they may be an ...interesting exception to the general rule that species ...
... maintenance of local diversity. In a one-paragraph Introduction, MacArthur succinctly lays out the problem: five species of Dendroica coexist in mature boreal forest, so similar in form and food that leading ornithologists note they may be an ...interesting exception to the general rule that species ...
Introducing Traits with Pinpoint Accuracy
... Introducing Traits with Pinpoint Accuracy Syngenta employs precision transformation and conversion to ensure performance RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC The art and science of variety development has blossomed over the past two decades, with big developments often making headlines along the way. S ...
... Introducing Traits with Pinpoint Accuracy Syngenta employs precision transformation and conversion to ensure performance RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC The art and science of variety development has blossomed over the past two decades, with big developments often making headlines along the way. S ...
the publication
... also eaten by rodents and almost the largest individuals are selected for exploitation. The assessment of the traditional harvesting practices permits to determine their various effects on plant health and viability. The effective use, by forest gatherers, of the least damaging techniques and levels ...
... also eaten by rodents and almost the largest individuals are selected for exploitation. The assessment of the traditional harvesting practices permits to determine their various effects on plant health and viability. The effective use, by forest gatherers, of the least damaging techniques and levels ...
AP Biology Summer Assignment – 2016
... INDEPENDENT VARIABLE (IV) (also called the manipulated variable) — the variable that is changed on purpose for the experiment; you may have several levels of your independent variable. DEPENDENT VARIABLE (DV) (also called the responding variable) — The variable that acts in response to or because of ...
... INDEPENDENT VARIABLE (IV) (also called the manipulated variable) — the variable that is changed on purpose for the experiment; you may have several levels of your independent variable. DEPENDENT VARIABLE (DV) (also called the responding variable) — The variable that acts in response to or because of ...
Bioinformatics - Plymouth State College
... represents an incomplete list. Ideally, each student will present on two of the below techniques. ...
... represents an incomplete list. Ideally, each student will present on two of the below techniques. ...
3.6 M - Thierry Karsenti
... regarded as the study of animals and plants in their relations to each other and to their environment. The first chapter will explain how ‘oekologie’ (ecology) was coined in 1866 by the German biologist, Ernst Haeckel from the Greek oikos meaning "house" or "dwelling", and logos meaning "science" or ...
... regarded as the study of animals and plants in their relations to each other and to their environment. The first chapter will explain how ‘oekologie’ (ecology) was coined in 1866 by the German biologist, Ernst Haeckel from the Greek oikos meaning "house" or "dwelling", and logos meaning "science" or ...
Frontiers of Ecology - Integrative Biology
... The combined roles of phylogeny and ongoing evolution. Although biologists commonly divide the temporal continuum into ecological time and evolutionary time, evolution shapes ecological processes across all time intervals. The phylogenetic history of species creates large-scale patterns in the ecolo ...
... The combined roles of phylogeny and ongoing evolution. Although biologists commonly divide the temporal continuum into ecological time and evolutionary time, evolution shapes ecological processes across all time intervals. The phylogenetic history of species creates large-scale patterns in the ecolo ...
- Wiley Online Library
... changes comparable to those observed in other vertebrates, including humans. The recent development of transgenesis in this species makes it possible to insert specific constructs into their genome, and the establishment of transgenic lines is facilitated by their very rapid generation time, which c ...
... changes comparable to those observed in other vertebrates, including humans. The recent development of transgenesis in this species makes it possible to insert specific constructs into their genome, and the establishment of transgenic lines is facilitated by their very rapid generation time, which c ...
Frontiers of Ecology
... The combined roles of phylogeny and ongoing evolution. Although biologists commonly divide the temporal continuum into ecological time and evolutionary time, evolution shapes ecological processes across all time intervals. The phylogenetic history of species creates large-scale patterns in the ecolo ...
... The combined roles of phylogeny and ongoing evolution. Although biologists commonly divide the temporal continuum into ecological time and evolutionary time, evolution shapes ecological processes across all time intervals. The phylogenetic history of species creates large-scale patterns in the ecolo ...
Can more K-selected species be better invaders? A case study of
... fruits and interference between adult females for access to laying sites, concluded that competitive interactions were hierarchically organized, with recently arrived species systematically dominant on previous ones. In the same study, natural densities and coinfection rates in field-collected fruit ...
... fruits and interference between adult females for access to laying sites, concluded that competitive interactions were hierarchically organized, with recently arrived species systematically dominant on previous ones. In the same study, natural densities and coinfection rates in field-collected fruit ...
On Bird Species Diversity Author(s): Robert H. MacArthur and John
... over the habitat, or else, more plausibly, that birds use some farily subtle differences in local habitat as criteria for habitat selection. Returning to the bird species diversity, it clearly can increase as the area increases. Since there is no adequate theory of "species-area" or "diversity-area" ...
... over the habitat, or else, more plausibly, that birds use some farily subtle differences in local habitat as criteria for habitat selection. Returning to the bird species diversity, it clearly can increase as the area increases. Since there is no adequate theory of "species-area" or "diversity-area" ...
Theory and its correction
... seeds may remain dormant for >100 years, and in some desert plants. The box in the upper left has a ?. There are a number of approaches to indicate why that box should not be occupied by observed reproductive strategies. The most intuitive of them considers the effect of such a strategy on species i ...
... seeds may remain dormant for >100 years, and in some desert plants. The box in the upper left has a ?. There are a number of approaches to indicate why that box should not be occupied by observed reproductive strategies. The most intuitive of them considers the effect of such a strategy on species i ...
Biology - Silk Road International School
... growth curve for a population growing in an environment with limited resources Describe the increase in human population size and its social implications Interpret graphs and diagrams of human population growth Explain the factors that lead to the lag phase, exponential (log) phase and station ...
... growth curve for a population growing in an environment with limited resources Describe the increase in human population size and its social implications Interpret graphs and diagrams of human population growth Explain the factors that lead to the lag phase, exponential (log) phase and station ...
Population
... - Extremely good at what they do, but vulnerable to change • Generalists = species with broad niches that can use a wide array of habitats and resources - Able to live in many different places Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings ...
... - Extremely good at what they do, but vulnerable to change • Generalists = species with broad niches that can use a wide array of habitats and resources - Able to live in many different places Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings ...
Jaguar Population Dynamics
... energy for the cats. Jaguars prey on sheep, rodents, peccaries, deer, birds, fish, armadillos, turtles, and crocodiles. In high grass areas they stalk or ambush their prey. In the forests, they hide in the trees to spring on animals on land or in the riverbank. Since they have such a variety of prey ...
... energy for the cats. Jaguars prey on sheep, rodents, peccaries, deer, birds, fish, armadillos, turtles, and crocodiles. In high grass areas they stalk or ambush their prey. In the forests, they hide in the trees to spring on animals on land or in the riverbank. Since they have such a variety of prey ...
Plant traits and biochemical cycling on land
... To understand (climatic, successional or humaninduced) changes in ecosystem functions as related to community change (on land & in oceans!): – focus not only on variation in response traits among organisms – but also on variation in effect traits – ….and especially on the relations between variation ...
... To understand (climatic, successional or humaninduced) changes in ecosystem functions as related to community change (on land & in oceans!): – focus not only on variation in response traits among organisms – but also on variation in effect traits – ….and especially on the relations between variation ...
Chapter 52 notes
... Type III: drops sharply at the start, reflecting very high death rates for the young, but then flattens out as death rates decline for those few individuals that have survived to a certain critical age Usually associated with organisms that produce very large numbers of offspring but provide lit ...
... Type III: drops sharply at the start, reflecting very high death rates for the young, but then flattens out as death rates decline for those few individuals that have survived to a certain critical age Usually associated with organisms that produce very large numbers of offspring but provide lit ...
Observed Instances of Speciation
... longer closely related may have retained the ability for genetic recombination with each other through sex. This is not a derived characteristic. Because of this it is invalid for defining monophyletic taxa. A final problem with the BSC is that groups that do not occur together in time cannot be eva ...
... longer closely related may have retained the ability for genetic recombination with each other through sex. This is not a derived characteristic. Because of this it is invalid for defining monophyletic taxa. A final problem with the BSC is that groups that do not occur together in time cannot be eva ...
Organic versus conventional arable farming systems
... generate activity-density measures and not absolute abundance measures because number of individuals depends both on a species’ abundance and its propensity to move. Despite this drawback, this method is considered suitable for comparisons within the same habitat (Topping and Sunderland, 1992). Howe ...
... generate activity-density measures and not absolute abundance measures because number of individuals depends both on a species’ abundance and its propensity to move. Despite this drawback, this method is considered suitable for comparisons within the same habitat (Topping and Sunderland, 1992). Howe ...